A6 The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Fired Planner Wilson said: “They wanted to push their dirty work on somebody else. They didn’t want any controversy for the church.” Millard remains on his LDS mission in Nauvoo, though he has Pulled in Two Directions tensions first sparked in pre-Civil War days. The building is a rough replica of the one destroyed by arson after amob shot and killed LDS Church founder Joseph Smith and exiled his followers. Smith was murdered in 1844 while jailed for ordering destruction ofa newspapercritical of his church. Harsh i linger, with some locals irked by the notion their ancestors wronged the LDS Church. They claim Smith was a scoundrel andhis followers stirred the skirmishes in the wake of his murder. So in many ways, Millard’s task was as monumental as the concrete building rising imposingly. from the original templesite. Bucking Authority: Nauvoo natives like their town as it is —a gritty farming community trimmed with taverns and steeples. It is a home, they say, not an elaborate set for nostalgia and pageantry staged by the people with whomtheir ancestors battled. When Millard arrived a year ago, council member Joan Kraft about 10 percent of Nauvoo’s popeee Se ee which members perform sacred church rights, like weddings and bloated Mississippi, which moves so slowly past Nauvoo it doesn’t appear to be rolling forward at all. The same mightbe said about been given a new assignment. He @ Continued from A-1 Millard then contradicted the LDS temple project managers by refusingto sign offona plan to load and unload buses oftemplevisitors on Nauvoo’s main street. He argued it was dangerous to pedestrians, and insisted buses unload in front of the temple, something managers did not want. “He said he was told [by church managers]: ‘Before you came, we were able to do anything we wanted,’ ”says Kraft. “He was just doing hisjob.” Millard was mysteriously stripped of the job less than seven months after relocating from North Salt Lake with his wife and said he was told by local church leaders notto talk to the news ...> dia and he declined commentfor this article. Church leaders in Nauvoo also have kept mum. “I don’t knowthe reason behind the city. It has been 154 years since Brigham Young led the Mormons to Utah, where the once-scorned people scratched from the desert a here for more than 30 years. “That is something you havetotalk to the city and Ken Millard about.” Still Divided: Millard has a degree in architecture from the University of Utah and a master’s degree in planning from Cornell University. He has worked as a plannerandbuilder in Europe, and dozens of small cities across the Westhavehired him to create their will tower15 stories over the City _Hall next door,will also be a moneo to early Mormons who turned a farming outpost at the edge of19th century America intoa umming theocracy that rivaled Chicago as Tlinois’ biggestcity. bustling metropolis ofmore than a million residents. Nauvoo has yetto get its first “Tve never seen anything that has enlistedsuch excitement as this temple,” LDS Church Presi- cheese factory that has threatened fall of 1999. “This marksthe begin- his being released from the city,” said Jerry Goodwin,director ofthe LDS-owned NRI, which has been restoring historical structures Sunday,March 11, 2001 stoplight. The city’s major employer isa cou:CaronE Hinckley saidee 87 reakingg ceremonies in the to leave town, andit is clear that ing, where it all began. Nauvoo’seconomicfutureistiedto eeeen also ee bethe Mormonrestoration projects, S°0A anew rount ee NANestimated25000 already “IScol,ikeahauntedhouse, amble through the. restored section of town during the sweltering summer months, and some say saysKraft. “You Just look atit and iis Just a big huge thing sitting eae jl “anti? though r ill will toward the church or its members. Visitors Only: The problem, she says, is that most Mormons will only visit, or live here brieflyas missionaries, but they are decisions for her town thatwill affect locals for years to come. She is skeptical about a plan backed by the LDS Church or re move truck traffic street. It might add to the city’s blossoming 19th century charm, she says, but it could kill main street business. She also points to an LDS Church offer to pay $26,000 for new restrooms in the city park across from the temple. LDS leaders asked the city to fund their maintenance, which over the next decade would easily exceed construction costs. Kraft that Nauvoo has gotten by for more than a hundred that numberwill quadruple oncein ae eeethe minds one the templeis finished. anti-Mormon) in oi For Mormons, who comprise two teen-age sons. There are no records in City Council minutes of a vote to removehim, despite his stated wish to remain on thejob. “He got reassigned,” says Mayor Tom Wilson. Whenasked if LDS Churchoffi- See next page HARDWOGDbye FROM cials in Nauvoo asked the city to fire Millard, the mayorreplied, “I guess you could saythat.” Pressed on the church’s role, Fy FACTORY DIRECT SALES T0 THE PUBLIC Pee eeROT eal sae UCR a eee sme tee rtie scot Join the eae 3 Mastercraft "This as Teddy Bear Patrol "THE WOOD FLOOR WAREHOUSE We are asking for your help in a public service campaign to equip area law cmagoa enforcement agencies with Bears. The Bears will be used by policeofficers to comfort children in FN traumatic situationssuch as accidents, fires, aN 74 Prete oe ai) rarity or scenes of domestic violence. 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